The Downtown Brooklyn Thread

Does anyone know a good source for bk neighborhood police blotters/crime news given that the Brooklyn Paper's website seems to be all kinds of screwed up? Very strange shit has been going on at my building. First two nights ago my buzzer rang and I saw two dudes on my intercom and one immediately put his hand over the camera (I threatened to call police, video went dark, nothing else happened). Then last night, police rang my buzzer wanting entry to the building but not for my apartment (normally I'd hesitate to do this without more info, but given what had happened the night prior I was willing to let them in). Then today the brand new security door is broken (although last night well after the police arrived it was still fine).

for my neighborhood the forums on Brooklynian are pretty good at covering that kinda stuff, not sure if there is a similar site for where you live

http://brooklynian.com/forum/prospect-heights/

I'm not sure where you live, if you mouse over Forum on that page I linked there are a few different neighborhood message boards listed

i went to bar corvo last night at 5:30 pm and got a table right away, its pretty good, even really good, but not 90-minute wait good

I liked it too. probably liked it better than Al Di La tbh. Menu at Bar Corvo is more my speed. Feels more modern.

Trying to remember what all we got ... lentil soup, faro salad, oh yeah I got lamb shank I think. It was solid.

Their wine is pretty affordable too.

Seems like there is finally some progress on the Kimchi Grill, I'm hearing end of March / beginning of April

i had the chitarra w/ octopus confit and the dandelion greens/fava puree, both were excellent, good wine, and yeah, affordable for the quality overall i thought. the guy says theyre opening the patio by the end of april

http://gothamist.com/2012/03/19/barclays_center_will_sell_bottled_b.php

bottled beyonce!

http://gifs.gifbin.com/1237129780_beyonce_booty.gif

in all seriousness tho brooklyn water should be sourced from the gowanus

http://skyjude.users.btopenworld.com/Images/casablanca02.jpg
I came to Brooklyn for the waters

^^^misinformed

20% rent increase.

Goodbye Brooklyn!

dang

ally & ghost rider are moving for the same reason : /

haha my rent hasn't gone up in the six years i've been here -- probably because a) dude is too lazy to figure out the process b) dude is so lazy that jacking the rent isn't worth dealing with renters who would complain far more than i do

that is nutty. I get my approx 4% hike every year.

Need a lazy rent-hiker's database.

dang, hurting! 20% is a lot. queens?

Yeah, I'm probably looking at upper Astoria (or Ditmars Steinway or w/e it's called), Sunnyside, Forest Hills, idk where else. I talked to a friend about Prospect Heights and that sounds about as expensive as here. Bushwick doesn't seem worth it - I can probably get something nicer and closer to work for the same money in queens. We vaguely talked about moving out of the city altogether but I think we're not ready for that. Met a couple who moved to Peekskill - hour train ride to New York, cheap houses, supposedly some semblance of a downtown.

when do you have to start worrying about daycare/preschool/schools (if not already)

already. That's one reason Forest Hills is on our list. I mean I haven't researched, but it seems more likely to have good options that Sunnyside or Astoria.

I mean we don't need full-time daycare yet, but we do want to live somewhere where in a year or two we have a good option for preschool.

man

In the same week, a break-in in our building and this:

http://www.nbcnewyork.com/news/local/Cooper-Park-Mom-Water-Balloon-Attack-Girl--158960595.html

(worse than the headline makes it sound)

Kind of glad we're moving, given that H & K are home without me most of the day and don't have many places to go other than to that park or to get a $12 hipster waffle

Weirdly, the building just dropped the rent they were asking (in their listing) without telling us. I don't think we'd pay what they're currently asking anyway, but it still seems like a pretty shady practice, and also kind of dumb, since we're reliable, on-time-rent-paying-tenants and they're throwing away money on listing agents, prepping the apt after we move out, etc.

i finally ate at mr. fulton today.
my low expectations were met.

Surely one of you is going to a Jay-Z Barclays baptism show?

I wonder what my first event there will be. Leonard Cohen in December? (never seen Len)

cheapest Nets tix are $30 I read

I keep forgetting all the Brooklynites leave work to drink at 4 on Fridays.

I only left early to get a haircut! Think I know one person who has tix to the show and I can't help feeling she's being a bit traitorous even though she's never lived in Bk and doesn't have a personal stake in.

I heard the Barclays is ugly and leaky that true?

that's Marty Markowitz

haha

I might try to go see celtics v nets in december

i tagged along with the wife to see jay-z on Saturday, and it was alright for a big show with great seats I didn't have to pay for. Bummed that Friday's crowd got Big Daddy Kane in the encore while we got Memphis Bleek, though. Dunno who they had last night.

I haven't been in a pro sports arena since living in Central PA, so I can't tell you how this compares to others. Looks spiffy afaik, though, and it's funny how all the food sellers are like Calexico, Blue Marble, Fatty'cue, etc. Suppose that's great for tourists but personally i was like "ok I think I can wait a few hours and pay far less at the actual place."

favorite moment was hearing a guy in the bathroom yell "I might be the first shmuck in shorts to use this urinal!"

Looks spiffy afaik, though, and it's funny how all the food sellers are like Calexico, Blue Marble, Fatty'cue, etc. Suppose that's great for tourists but personally i was like "ok I think I can wait a few hours and pay far less at the actual place."

― da croupier, Monday, October 1, 2012 9:42 AM Bookmark Flag Post Permalink

It's not like that wasn't true with the crappy hotdogs arenas used to sell.

again, i haven't been to a pro sports arenas in years (more than a decade for sports rather than music) so hell if i know what one should expect food-wise, price or quality.

I went to the cute liddle stadium where the Cyclones play and it was shocking to me how bad and unsatisfying the food was. No wonder it comes in huge portions, you can get through a whole order and feel as unsatisfied as if you hadn't eaten at all.

My basic plan is never to go to the Atlantic Yards stadium because fuck them, that's why. But I can appreciate that if you're going to pay extra to eat food in a self-contained place, it should at least be actual food you want.

i wasn't hating, to be clear. just noting why i didn't bother spending 10.50 to try calexico's "queso quesadilla."

Yeah, it's basically T/S: $10.50 for a $7 quesadilla or $5 for a $1.50 hot dog.

I am not down w/ Calexico. First time I went when the shop opened on Union it was awesome, but it's mostly let me down since, esp. the Greenpoint location, fwiw.

I haven't had it in a while. I ate at the one on Union a few times and I thought the meat was surprisingly good.

i order from the red hook one a lot but that's in part a matter of convenience.

while it is objectively A Bad Thing, I think the stadium looks pretty nice from the outside

feel like its going to age reallllyyy quickly

i passed by yesterday and the screen was already broken:

https://pbs.twimg.com/media/A4D4TlXCUAA798K.jpg

"queso quesadilla" << c'mon, guys, at least pretend to try?

now that it exists, in general it's better for the place to do well than not, right? or is there an argument for wanting an unsuccessful arena? i'm not planning to go much (though i may be back for Neil Young, depending if i get hooked up again) but i wasn't sure what the political sentiment was now that the issue has changed from "stadium or no stadium" or "boycott or not"

there is an argument for an unsuccessful arena if its failure would mean it was turned into apartment buildings

also do you really want to see thousands of people in ugly ass brooklyn nets gear, there is an argument on an aesthetic level